washingtonexaminer | The Democratic establishment despises the insurgent candidacy of Rep.
Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii. From her decision to buck party orthodoxy and
endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016 over Democratic National Committee
favorite Hillary Clinton, to her constant criticisms of Democratic
foreign policy mistakes, Gabbard has made herself no friends with the party elite. She's perfectly fine with that if it's required to put the people first.
Still, this means establishment Democrats and their allies regularly smear and attack the Democratic congresswoman. But, as if we need more proof of how deranged the establishment’s hatred for Gabbard has become, the New York Times style section is now criticizing her… wardrobe?
In a piece titled “Tulsi Gabbard’s white pantsuit isn’t winning,” Times
style writer Vanessa Friedman savages the congresswoman for her choice
of wardrobe. Friedman correctly notes that Gabbard has made the white
pantsuit her defining campaign look, wearing the iconic outfit in most
of the debates and much of her prominent campaign promotional material.
Yet where Friedman goes seriously, sinisterly wrong is
arguing that the look isn’t working, and sinking into deranged,
hypocritical attacks on the congresswoman. Friedman argues that when
Hillary Clinton wore white pantsuits, it was feminist and iconic, but
when Gabbard does it, she is “using her white suits to tap into another
tradition, latent in the public memory: the mythical white knight,
riding in to save us all from yet another ‘regime change war.’”![]()
It
gets worse. Friedman continues that Gabbard’s white pantsuits are “the
white of avenging angels and flaming swords, of somewhat combative
righteousness,” and the white of “cult leaders.” Friedman writes that
Gabbard’s wardrobe “has connotations of the fringe, rather than the
center.”
